[Discuss] wikifab license

[Matt Maier]

Hi Clement,
I suspected the people who would establish a site like wikifab would also
be on the OSHW mailing list ;)

Thanks for the clarification. That makes sense.

I'll hold further questions until after the next email.

On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 7:29 PM, Clément Flipo <clement.flipo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Matt, Hi all,
>
> I am Clément Flipo, co-founder of Wikifab.
>
> You're right, this is unclear. Sorry for that...
>
> Wikifab is in fact made of multiple extensions for Mediawiki (Mediawiki is
> released under the GNU General Public License).
>
> We have developed new extensions (those are under MIT license) and other
> extensions that are modification of existing ones. Our modifications of
> these modified extensions are made under the same license than it was
> originally (generally GNU).
>
> The "CC-AA" is a mistake. I will correct it now. In fact the
> CC licenses concerns the content hosted on Wikifab (the open hardware
> projects). If you want to discuss about the licenses for open hardware
> projects, we have created this topic
> <http://feedback.wikifab.org/t/under-which-open-license-can-i-publish-my-tutorial-on-wikifab/30>
> on our forum.
>
> I'll send another message to this list to explain what we are up to at
> Wikifab and talk about more general topics.
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Best,
> Clément
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 6:01 PM, Matt Maier <blueback09 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This is a new website trying to help document OSHW.
>> http://en.wikifab.org/index.php/Main_Page
>>
>> Their license is unclear because on this page they say
>> http://en.wikifab.org/index.php/Wikifab:About
>>
>> "Wikifab source code is released under the MIT license and is freely
>> downloadable on Github. The documentation to install your own Wikifab
>> instance can be found here."
>>
>> ...but on this page they say...
>> http://en.wikifab.org/index.php/Wikifab:Organization
>>
>> "If individuals or cooperatives wish to sell Wikifab software, they are
>> free to do so, although modifications of the Wikifab software have to be
>> licensed under the open source license CC-AA."
>>
>> There's no such thing as the CC-AA license and at any rate the CC
>> licenses aren't the same thing as the MIT license.
>> https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>
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